《基础英语》课件 telephone.pptVIP

Incredible as it may sound, the story of the fish and oranges was true, because men who would not lie even to save their own souls told and retold that story until it was incorporated into Magdalunas calendar. (1) to save their own souls: to save their lives (2) ... until it was incorporated into Magdalunas calendar: ... until the event became one of the things by which we kept track of the important events in our lives. Para 9 There was, for instance, the year of the drought, when the heavens were shut for months and the spring from which the entire village got its drinking water slowed to a trickle. (1) the heavens were shut for months: it didn’t rain for months as if the sky were shut tight (2) heavens: (literary) the sky (3) slowed to a trickle: gradually there was.only a small amount of water coming slowly out of the spring (4) trickle: v. ①to flow slowly in drops or in a thin stream细细地流：Rain trickled down his umbrella.雨水从他的伞上流淌下来。②to move slowly in small groups or amounts慢慢地移动：The audience trickled into the great hall in twos and threes.人们三三两两地走进了大厅。|| n. 小股水流；涓涓细流：He was badly injured and a trickle of blood came out of the wound.他受伤很严重，血从伤口处流出。 Para 10 Sometimes, amid the long wait and the heat and the flies and the smell of goat dung, tempers flared, and the younger women, anxious about their babies, argued over whose turn it was to fill up her jar. Paraphrase: Sometimes, the younger women tended to become ill-tempered because of the bad conditions such as the heat, the flies moving around, and the smell of goat dung. They worried about their babies and became anxious, so they got impatient and argued about who should get their water first. And sometimes the arguments escalated into full-blown, knockdown-dragout fights; the women would grab each other by the hair and curse and scream and spit and call each other names that made my ears tingle. Paraphrase: And sometimes the arguments became so fierce that it turned into a violent fight; the women would take h